Environmental Ethics

You are always within nature

This presentation starts with a description of different views of nature and concludes that the most adequate is that of humans as a subsytem of Nature.

What is a fruitful relation to any supersystem?

From this, the discussion extends to a discussion of a fruitful relation between any subsystem and its supersystem.

How does natural systems behave?

To evaluate what a fruiful relation is, a plunge is taken into the thermodynamics of living systems, and it is discussed how humans can assist the spontaneous behaviour of ecosystems.

What is a fruitful relation to nature?

Examples are gven from permaculture and ruralisation.

Audience: People interested in human relation to Nature, environmental ethics, Gaia, permaculture, societal planning and ecosystem development.

2.34 Mb, 58 slides. Price: € 10.
Made with Powerpoint of MS Office XP 2002.
Approximate show time: about one hour.